Pakistan offers to erect Afghan border fence

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Pakistan offers to erect Afghan border fence
Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:51 PM ET


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fed up with accusations it allows Taliban fighters to cross into Afghanistan, Pakistan offered on Monday to erect a fence between the two countries to prevent incursions from either side.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf made the offer during talks in New York with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri said after the 75-minute meeting.

Musharraf and Rice are among scores of foreign leaders and ministers in New York for a U.N. summit. Musharraf is expected to meet U.S. President George W. Bush later this week.

"Pakistan is prepared to raise a fence so that we can put an end to these allegations," Kasuri told reporters, without specifying exactly where and when a fence could be erected, how long it would be, or who would pay for it.


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